The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO), the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation and British human rights organisation Article 19 have produced an animated YouTube video about the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

The Court was established under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. According to the video, as of September 2016, only 30 countries have ratified the protocol.

The video points out that the Court has already made two major decisions relating to freedom of expression in Africa. In 2014, the Court ruled that imprisonment for defamation violates the right to freedom of expression. In the same year, the Court ordered a reopening of the investigation into the killing of Burkinabe investigative journalist and publisher Norbert Zongo.